Improvement in egg-carriers



lttited @Sisme stent @Wire Letters Patent No. 101,093, (la-ted llfarch 22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN EGG-CARRIERS.-

` The Schedule referred to'in these Letters Patent and making part of the same. l

To all 'whom it may concern:

fication, and to the letters4 and figures of reference ymarked thereon.

My invention relates to. means for packing and transporting eggs, and consists in the construction and novel arrangement of cells of paper or other suitable material, formed in conical or pyramidal shape by the union ot' two strips properly molded 'and connected, so as to form compartments, cachot' which is adapted to hold a single egg-separated from all others by a double wall.

Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 representmy egg-carrier when constructed in a pyramidal form.

Figures 5 and 6 represent one modification of my cone-shaped carrier, and

Figure 7 .another modification of the same.

1n constructing my pyramidal cells, I take a quadrangular box, and insert vin the bottom thereof the partition walls a in the manner shown.

It is not always-necessary to attach the walls a by passing them through the bottom of the box. They `may be bent in the proper shape, and made to rest ou the bottom of said box. For permanence and safety, however, I advise that the attachment be made in the manper represented on fig. 2.

In constructing my conical cells, I take two strips of suitable material, and mold them on formers until they assume the shape desired, as ou iig. 7. I then place said strips side by side, and connect them rml y, with small wires or cords, as shown at c.

The letters d represent ears or lugs, formed in the ends of the conical rows of cells, respectively, which, when in place, are passed outward through the box in which the rows'are held, to secure them iirmly in place.

The conical cells shown in figs. 5 'and 6 are formed of two strips ot' proper material, .cut out in a circular form, so as to leave the bases of such strips'of less length than their tops. These strips-are then molded upon a former, and slots made in them, respectively, as represented bythe letters. When this is done, they are united by passing the slots into each other, and they assume the shape desired.

I t will be observed that the lugsdin this modiication are formed horizontally with the line of the cells.

It must be'also understood that while the slots s are cut in the top of one strip, as shown in fig. 6, they are cut in the bottom of its mate.

I claimas my invention- The cells for carrying eggs herein described, constructed in conical or pyramidal forms, substantially as specified.

ABNER H. BRYANT.

Witnesses:

Guns. Srnnn, C. W. ScHnnINnn. 

